Chokri Belaïd was a Tunisian lawyer and politician who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaid was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the current Islamist-led Tunisian government. On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
DHKP/C
The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front, (Turkish: Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP/C) is a Marxist-Leninist party in Turkey.
The group espouses a Marxist-Leninist ideology and holds an anti-U.S., anti-NATO position. It considers that the Turkish government is under the control of Western imperialism and seeks to destroy this control by violent and democratic means.
On 1 February 2013, a suicide bomber, a DHKP/C militant, blew himself up at the US embassy in Ankara, killing a Turkish security guard and wounding several other people
The group espouses a Marxist-Leninist ideology and holds an anti-U.S., anti-NATO position. It considers that the Turkish government is under the control of Western imperialism and seeks to destroy this control by violent and democratic means.
On 1 February 2013, a suicide bomber, a DHKP/C militant, blew himself up at the US embassy in Ankara, killing a Turkish security guard and wounding several other people
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Scuttle
scut·tle 1 (sk
t
l)
To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).
To sink (a ship) by this means.
Informal To scrap; discard:
To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.
Russia has accused the United States of scuttling a U.N. Security Council statement on the Gaza crisis. Morocco had proposed a statement by the 15 nation Council calling for a halt to the Israel-Hamas hostilities. Russia’s U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin said Moscow is now considering a full Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire, supports the Egyptian-Arab led mediation efforts and calls for resumed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
tl)To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).
To sink (a ship) by this means.
Informal To scrap; discard:
To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.
Russia has accused the United States of scuttling a U.N. Security Council statement on the Gaza crisis. Morocco had proposed a statement by the 15 nation Council calling for a halt to the Israel-Hamas hostilities. Russia’s U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin said Moscow is now considering a full Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire, supports the Egyptian-Arab led mediation efforts and calls for resumed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur is a Libyan politician, professor of electrical engineering, university president and entrepreneur. He became the first elected Prime Minister of modern Libya on September 12, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
HPTN 052
HPTN 052 is the name of a clinical trial which examined the extent to which antiretroviral therapy (ART) can, when taken by people who have HIV, decrease their infectivity and thereby reduce the chance that they will pass HIV on to their sexual partners. The results of the study were so compelling, that the study's Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) asked the research team to share the results with all study participants and offer ART to the control group before the study ended. The study continues to determine if the results - that ART can reduce the transmission of HIV by 96% - have durability. The trial was organized by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
Synriam
Indian pharmaceutical firm Ranbaxy has launched the drug Synriam, which
it claims will prove a more efficient and simpler treatment for malaria.
Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS)
Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy, is a novel method for accurate and robust chemical analysis of objects where the contents are obscured by an opaque layer or container.
The Green Economy Initiative
A green economy is described as one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. In other words, we can think of a green economy as an economic environment that achieves low carbon emissions, resource efficiency and at the same time is socially inclusive.
The Green Economy Initiative
The UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative, launched in late 2008, provides a comprehensive and practical working mechanism, through analysis and policy support for investing in green sectors and in greening environmental unfriendly sectors.
The Green Economy Initiative has three main activities, which are to produce a Green Economy Report and related research materials, which will analyse the macroeconomic, sustainability, and poverty reduction implications of green investment in a range of sectors; to provide advisory services on ways to move towards a green economy in specific countries; and to engage a wide range of research, non-governmental organizations, business and UN partners in implementing the Green Economy Initiative.
Regardless of the environmental benefits and options for sustainability, investment into a Green Economy is captured in several reports as an agent for creating millions of new jobs, such UNEP’s Green Jobs report. One of the main engines for economic growth is a higher rate of employment, which both reduces a burden on the economy and gives consumers the purchasing power to sustain lives through supporting industries.
By 2008, over 2.3 million people in just six leading countries in green jobs were employed in this low-carbon sector (China, Denmark, Germany, India Spain, and the United States). The Green Economy is therefore not just a passing environmental fad but is one of the best solutions available for sustainable economic growth that recognizes the social component.
The Green Economy Initiative
The UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative, launched in late 2008, provides a comprehensive and practical working mechanism, through analysis and policy support for investing in green sectors and in greening environmental unfriendly sectors.
The Green Economy Initiative has three main activities, which are to produce a Green Economy Report and related research materials, which will analyse the macroeconomic, sustainability, and poverty reduction implications of green investment in a range of sectors; to provide advisory services on ways to move towards a green economy in specific countries; and to engage a wide range of research, non-governmental organizations, business and UN partners in implementing the Green Economy Initiative.
Regardless of the environmental benefits and options for sustainability, investment into a Green Economy is captured in several reports as an agent for creating millions of new jobs, such UNEP’s Green Jobs report. One of the main engines for economic growth is a higher rate of employment, which both reduces a burden on the economy and gives consumers the purchasing power to sustain lives through supporting industries.
By 2008, over 2.3 million people in just six leading countries in green jobs were employed in this low-carbon sector (China, Denmark, Germany, India Spain, and the United States). The Green Economy is therefore not just a passing environmental fad but is one of the best solutions available for sustainable economic growth that recognizes the social component.
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